Ordnance

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Ordnance may refer to:

Military

• Weapons and ammunition:
  • Military logistics, especially provision of weapons and ammunition
  • Ordnance weapon, a personal weapon issued to a member of a military unit
  • Aircraft ordnance, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft
  • Artillery often in the formal name, e.g. as in Ordnance Survey
  • Artillery shells, specifically unexploded ordnance

Other

• Ordnance Datum (from use in ballistics), a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
• Ordnance, Oregon, United States, a former community near the Umatilla Chemical Depot

See also

• Ordnance Factories Board, consisting of the Indian Ordnance Factories, is an industrial organisation, functioning under the Department of Defence Production of Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
• Royal Ordnance Factory, the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories during & after World War II
• Bangladesh Ordnance Factories
• Pakistan Ordnance Factories
• Ordnance Island, Bermuda, formerly a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, in St. George's town
• Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain
• Ordnance Corps (disambiguation)